Outsourcing

5 months ago

My friend was punished for doing everything right. Why you should stand with the striking UCL workers.

If you don’t stand with the striking cleaners and security guards at UCL this week, who will stand by you when you need support?

6 months ago

University of London brings staff in-house following boycott

The University of London (UoL) agreed to bring security staff and cleaners in house following boycotts and strikes at Senate…

6 months ago

Breaking: UCL Security guards, porters and cleaners in strike ballot as college fails to meet deadline to end outsourcing

IWGB are balloting 300 workers over strike action to end outsourcing and zero hours contracts, after UCL made concessions on holidays, sick leave and pensions

6 months ago

“Give me a break!”: Why do bosses think they’re above the law just because they employ students?

Some people say that working a shitty part-time job is part of growing up. It’s time we faced the truth and threw them an honest answer: Give us a break!

9 months ago

Departing University of London Vice Chancellor blasts “ill-informed” students in leaked email

UoL Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Kopelman, slammed recent protests over outsourcing at Senate House in an internal email last week.

9 months ago

Menelik Lee: Thirty years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, London’s student-worker coalitions show why cross-class solidarity still terrifies autocrats

London universities behave like authoritarian tyrants when confronted over outsourcing. But, unlike the dictators of communist China, our vice chancellors don’t have tanks to hide behind.